National Book Awards recap

What an honor to accompany University of Akron Press author Leslie Harrison at the National Book Awards, in recognition of her NBA finalist poetry collectionThe Book of Endings. This was definitely a highlight of my career as editor of the Akron Series in Poetry for the past ten years.

A million thanks to all our readers, and to everyone who cheered us on!

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I live in glorious Akron, Ohio, where I write poems, edit the Akron Series in Poetry, and teach literature and creative writing. I am the author of five full-length collections of poems, including A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Small Enterprise, and the collaborative poetry collection The Czar, with Jay Robinson (all from Black Lawrence Press). I've received an NEA fellowship in poetry, and several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2019 my first collection of prose poems, Partial Genius, is due to drop from BLP.
In my spare time, I like to photograph garbage.